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to the con·tra·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contraryadverb
contrary to expectations
"he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends"
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to the contrary
"To the contrary" is a phrase used to indicate a complete disagreement with something previously mentioned or an alternate or opposite idea in a particular context. It conveys the sense of contradicting, opposing, or rejecting the idea or evidence offered.
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To The Contrary
To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbé is PBS’s all women news-analysis program. The show airs weekly on over 251 PBS stations in the United States, in Canada, and internationally on Voice of America TV. It was created by host Bonnie Erbé and is produced by Persephone Productions in Washington, DC. Cari Weiss Stein is Executive Producer of To the Contrary. For the first six years of broadcast the show was filmed at the Maryland Public Television studios in Owings Mills, Maryland. First launched on April 1, 1992, each week the show features four female panelists from various backgrounds including politicians, journalists, activists, and professional commentators. These women, with host and moderator Bonnie Erbé, discuss various issues in the news, mainly affecting women, children, families and communities of color. It is a half hour program. The show tries to focus on how the news affects people, not simply politics.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of to the contrary in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of to the contrary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of to the contrary in a Sentence
Contrary to what one reporter may think, there is no prepared resolution floating around out there.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:
We must fight for Europe. We must stop blaming each other. On the contrary, we must unite forces and work together for a European solution to the refugee crisis. This is the only way for Europe to emerge stronger from this crisis.
Obviously anyone with a brain would understand introducing the anti-mask regulation will not bring Hong Kong to peace but to the complete contrary. It will only escalate the situation, and we all understand this is a political issue, and it should have been resolved politically months ago.
Before the resumption of the current crisis, what we hoped was that the camp would shut. But what we've seen, since December 2013, is actually the contrary.
This is a country that allows everybody ... to protest actions that they think are unjust, But using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law, contrary to who we are.
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